Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction
Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction, a site at the University of Pittsburgh, contains hundreds of visual aids (illustrations) that can be used to support instructional tasks such as describing objects and people (i.e., teaching vocabulary) or describing entire events and situations (i.e., teaching grammar). Originally created by Paul Toth, Dawn McCormick and David Quinto-Pozos...
Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon
The Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon, from Washington & Jefferson College, is a collection of authentic images for Chinese. Pictures are arranged by theme/context in a searchable database and are free to use under a Creative Commons license. Themes include: City life, food, clothing, sports, transportation etc. Each picture is annotated with an English translation,...
CARLA Virtual Picture Album
The LCTL Project (Less Commonly Taught Languages) sponsored by CARLA at the University of Minnesota hosts instructional materials of a number of languages including Chinese. The Virtual Picture Album shows pictures of people, places and objects in the People’s Republic of China. Each of the pictures is represented by a thumbnail-sized image in the...
Chinese Characters and Radicals
Chinese Characters and Radicals provides information about how characters are formed, strategies for memorizing them, and also contains a radical table with examples. By the Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language at the University of Oxford Chinese Characters and Radicals Websitehttp://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Radical_index.htm...